Should you buy an electric car?

Should you buy an electric car?

I suspect most people will end up buying cheap small electric cars, and keep their petrel or diesel cars for long travels, and use the cheap electric car for going to work each day.

The problem with electric cars is that batteries can fail and may only last a few years. It means that if you buy an electric car for $80k, in a few years it may have next to no value. Yet a $80k petrel car, in 40 years may still have some value.

By this I mean, if you look at a Mercedes W111/W112 S-Class (1959-1971), it still is worth a lot of money.

To me, the logic is to have hot swappable batteries, so if you go on a long trip, you can swap the battery in a few mins rather than sit for an hour or so charging. This also solves the problem if a battery fails, as it can be swapped without spending a fortune for someone to do it.

The key to electric cars is to make the batteries:

Swappable
Cheap
Light
Better storage
Recyclable
Long lasting
Easy to repair

I suspect people will buy such as the Citroen Ami and add extra batteries to increase the range as I suspect they are not hard to wire into the car.

The problem will be, less demand for petrel may in fact bring the cost of petrel down, making buying an electric car less appealing.

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